“The moment an audience starts to itch around you have lost them.”
Fritz Lang

“Cinema must reflect the temper of the times. We must choose material not only on the basis of whether we feel deeply, but on whether or not anyone's bloody well going to see it.”
Richard Lester

“- Daisy: I'm returning to the theatre.
- George Lass: Returning? I thought you only did movies.
- Daisy: What's the difference?
- George Lass: A live audience.”
Sarah Wynter - Daisy
Ellen Muth - George Lass

“- Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau: Why would you possibly want to be in a play when you could be in a film?
- Greta Schroeder: An audience gives me life. This... thing only takes it from me.”
John Malkovich - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Catherine McCormack - Greta Schröder

“We got the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did we go right?”
Nathan Lane - Max Bialystock